Gnome places menu opens with file-roller

In the gnome places menu - all works fine except when trying to open recently used items - which open up with file roller instead of the proper app. The same thing happens when trying to download OOo docs - I can't open them directly but have to save them first. I've search through gconf-editor settings, have all my 'properties/open with' etc. all correct in nautilus and for individual items, but no luck.
Any thoughts?

Thanks - I read this already though, but it doesn't work. Actually the only things in recently used docs that don't open, and the only things I can't open automatically when downloading (ie I have to save them first and open them separately) are OOo docs. But I have OOo docs set to open with OOo - so its a conundrum!

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